Sketches of Standing Figures and Animals

Prints and Drawings

1891/93

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Paul Gauguin
Title: Sketches of Standing Figures and Animals
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1891
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on cream wove paper, discolored to tan (removed from a sketchbook)
Dimensions: 10.8 × 16.7 cm (4 5/16 × 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Edward McCormick Blair
Reference Number: 2002.229V
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Bernard Dorival, Carnet de Tahiti (Paris, 1954), v. 2, p. 61.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific, The Edward McCormick Blair Collection,” September 6, 2003-January 11, 2004, cat. 4.

Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [Chicago 1959]; W. Walter, Paris [Chicago 1959]. Mr. and Mrs. Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976), New York [Chicago, 1959]. Sold by Stefan Lennert, Munich, to Alice Adam Ltd., Chicago, as agent for Edward McCormick Blair (1915-2010), Chicago, July 21, 1986 [acc. to Adam]; Given by Edward McCormick Blair to the Art Institute, 2002.

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